cluniac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.
adj
Relating to a reformed Benedictine monastic order founded at Cluny in eastern France.
Example Sentences
- "[…] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other."
- "In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar."
Etymology
From Cluny + -ac.
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
Clunian